When his headaches developed, Nick became bad-tempered and even violent.

尼克的头疼起来时，他变得焦躁易怒，甚至暴躁。

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He's a strange chap. Usually he's very pleasant and reasonable, but there are times when he gets very bad-tempered and almost violent. He's got a Jekyll and Hyde personality.

他是个很奇怪的家伙。他常常很快乐而且明白事理，但时而又脾气很坏甚至粗暴。他是个具有双重性格的人。

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His father, a violent-tempered autocrat, was appalled to discover that his eldest son, far from being a puritanical boor like himself, showed every sign of developing into a charming, fun-loving youth, with advanced aesthetic tastes.

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But unlike Defoe's noble hero, Selkirk had been cast away for good reason: He was a violent, foul-tempered guy.

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Those efforts have proven a failure to this point, and a market that has been fairly sanguine about the potential negative implications of the fiscal cliff to this point had a violent reaction Friday morning, though the move was tempered somewhat after Boehner said he is still open to working with the White House on some form of compromise.

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